--- title: When money is limited, families pay for needs first and wants only i… — Wants and needs · tree and pragmatics description: When money is limited, families pay for needs first and wants only if money is left. Who acts: families. A sentence of the lesson «Wants and needs» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Wants and needs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/) / 7 # Wants and needs, sentence 7 When money is limited, families pay for needs first and wants only if money is left. **Who acts:** families · **What happens:** pay, want, leave · **To what, where:** money This is a sentence of the lesson «Wants and needs» of the money course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:007-wants-and-needs.lesson:7 # text = When money is limited, families pay for needs first and wants only if money is left. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 007-wants-and-needs.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:cop 4 limited limited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 needs need NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | present | families | | | | | for needs; first *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for need=Theme | | 2 | **want** | present | families *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | money | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:money:007-wants-and-needs.lesson:7`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Wants and needs, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/6/) - next →: [Wants and needs, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/7-wants-and-needs/)